The latest news on the Houston Astros and from around MLB:<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a good thing the Astros went and acquired all that starting pitching depth:<\/p>\n
Starting pitching woes have led to the Astros leaning harder on their bullpen than any team in baseball:<\/p>\n
Are the Astros missing their chance to extend Cam Smith?<\/p>\n
While Astros pitchers are having big trouble with walks, they aren\u2019t the only ones:<\/p>\n
There is a strategy to challenging. The Astros lost both their challenges early and it cost them later in the game with some bad calls to their hitters:<\/p>\n
What has teams signing young prospects to big extensions earlier than ever?<\/p>\n
Bob Nightengale takes at look at MLB\u2019s biggest surprises and disappointments this season:<\/p>\n
Mike Trout is hitting .246 but he has 7 HR, several of the tape measure variety. Time for the Hype Train:<\/p>\n
The San Diego Padres are about to be sold to a private equity firm owner for a record-setting price:<\/p>\n
Mets GM taking heat for their bad start punctuated by an 8-game slide.<\/p>\n
Jon Heyman on Mets manager, Padres Fernando Tatis Jr, FA SP Lucas Giolito, and Yankees pitching logjam:<\/p>\n
At 37, there may not be much left in the tank for Mark Canha, but can\u2019t blame him for trying:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest news on the Houston Astros and from around MLB: It\u2019s a good thing the Astros went…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,38533,5,139,54,64940,65265,65394,4522,3211,4,3537],"class_list":{"0":"post-677760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-astros","9":"tag-astros-crawfish-boil","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-astros","13":"tag-houston-astros-analysis","14":"tag-houston-astros-discussion","15":"tag-houston-astros-injuries","16":"tag-houston-astros-news","17":"tag-houstonastros","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-mlb-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116421136508290578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}